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The future of aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance as House Republicans debate who will be their next speaker.The selection of a successor to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthywill play a big role in funding the U.S. provides to Ukraine. The White House and many lawmakers want additional funding to be passed while Congress will stanley taza be hammering out its spending bills to avoid a mid-November governm stanley bottles ent shutdown. But for now, Congress is paralyzed without an elected speaker.Ukraine has become an increasingly contentious issue in the Republican conference, where hardline conservatives hold outsized sway. Over the weekend, the House passed a measure to temporarily fund the government until mid-November, but only after Republicans dropped $6 billion in Ukraine aid. After McCarthy was ousted Tuesday, President Biden expressed concern over the future of aid to Ukraine, and said he plans to make a major s stanley cup peech on Ukraine at a yet-to-be-announced date. The president did not directly answer how much longer the U.S. can fund Ukraine without additional authority from Congress. It does worry me, but I know there are a majority of members of the House and Senate in both parties who have said that they support funding Ukraine, Mr. Biden said of future Ukraine aid after hardline Republicans and the Democratic caucus voted to oust McCarthy, the first time in history a House speaker has been removed. Although a majority of lawmakers may support Ukr Egld Bush Hails Economy, Assails Kerry
Thanks to a $2 million lawsuit, we re getting the first peek ever into the worl stanley portugal d of Washington s private eyes. These are firms that not only act like mini CIAs but also work with the feds and even rogue nations to dig up secrets and lies.The stanley cup case features a prominent author and TV pundit on terrorism issues, Neil Livingstone, who recently quit the firm he founded to start another. Now he s being sued by his old investigative outfit, GlobalOptions, which thinks Livingstone is stealing customers for his new gig, ExecutiveAction. He denies the charge.It s a complicated case, and some of the details are eye-popping. Consider the clients the two discuss: a firm owned by the daughter of Uzbekistan s strongman president; one secretively dubbed Project M ; and the feuding family of Sumner Redstone, chair of Viacom. Then there s the money involved. Livingstone s salary at GlobalOptions was $260,000. And in less than two months this year alone, Livingstone says, he paid his ex-firm $1,415,000 for helping him on some cases. No wonder neither side chose to talk.By Paul Bedard ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfd21208-8c88-11e2 stanley termosar -b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bfd21208-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bfd21208-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .i |
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